Family tree Jacobs » Pieter van Wijk (1917-)

Birthday June 22, 1917

• The temperature on June 22, 1917 was between 10.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 19.4 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
  • May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer († 1999)
• 1916 » Emil Fackenheim, Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi († 2003)
• 1916 » Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer († 1982)
• 1916 » Richard Eastham, American actor († 2005)
• 1918 » Cicely Saunders, English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer († 2005)
• 1918 » Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore († 1993)